[review] [TRS] Dream Time #1 - #2

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Dream Time #1 - #2
Posted by Mardou

Dream Time
By Colin J. Dinnie and Iain Buchanan

I'm being borne down in a torrent of slickness and pseudo-babble.
Dream Time #1 introduces us to the 'Dream=20
Warden'. He began as a 'figment of our collective=20
imagination, he's the caretaker of the=20
unconscious'. He looks a little bit like an=20
elongated Orco from 'Masters of the Universe'. I=20
think I need a cup of coffee, sleep is not an=20
option=8A.
Dream Time is pretty dire. A bland blonde and a=20
craggy Morgan Freeman type (a Vietnam vet just in=20
case you were wondering how lazy the=20
characterization was going to get) are brought=20
together - in dream time- to, wait for it "help=20
people in their dreams?"
Carl Jung (poor chap) is dragged in to give the=20
'Dream Time' concept a bit of undeserved=20
intellectual credibility. In reality the Jungian=20
pretensions are just a lame plot device on which=20
to hang lots of weary, shop-worn stories. Dream=20
Time #2 has the medieval knight story, next up=20
promises to be a Quantum=8Asorry, Dream leap into a=20
Hollywood noir type story. It's not the=20
unoriginality of the stories or the pretending to=20
be clever that bugs me so much, it's that the=20
writer has absolutely nothing to say. There's no=20
charm in the script, no attempt to create=20
memorable characters. There's nothing much here=20
except a burning ambition to be much better than=20
they are.
The result? A story flimsier than the tracing paper it was probably drawn on=
=2E
Still, it's very nicely stapled, so if you're a fan of staples give this a g=
o.


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